This happened with i386 RELENG_7 of a few days ago. Panic/reboot was unattended (happened at night), it occurred after a (live) dump of one filesystem onto another (gjournal-ed). It actually occurred while running md5 on the dump file. According to external measurements the system was quite loaded CPU- and memory-wise at the of the panic. Basic info from kgdb (I will keep the core and the symbol files for a while): Unread portion of the kernel message buffer: lockmgr: thread 0xc3205cc0 unlocking unheld lock KDB: stack backtrace: db_trace_self_wrapper(c0709990,d91b9bac,c0508e14,c07062e3,c3205cc0,...) at 0xc04519c6 = db_trace_self_wrapper+0x26 kdb_backtrace(c07062e3,c3205cc0,c2fcab80,0,c3fb37c0,...) at 0xc05444e9 kdb_backtrace+0x29 _lockmgr(c3f74498,6,c3f744c8,c3205cc0,c070d668,...) at 0xc0508e14 _lockmgr+0x614 vop_stdunlock(d91b9c00,c32407d4,c3f74440,c3205cc0,d91b9c24,...) at 0xc05890d5 = vop_stdunlock+0x45 VOP_UNLOCK_APV(c074d660,d91b9c00,c05a48b2,c074d660,d91b9c0c,...) at 0xc06e447c = VOP_UNLOCK_APV+0x5c vput(c3f74440,d91b9ce0,2,0,1388,...) at 0xc0598086 = vput+0xa6 vm_pageout(0,d91b9d38,0,0,0,...) at 0xc06965bd = vm_pageout+0xfdd fork_exit(c06955e0,0,d91b9d38) at 0xc04fc2a1 = fork_exit+0xa1 fork_trampoline() at 0xc06bbbe0 = fork_trampoline+0x8 --- trap 0, eip = 0, esp = 0xd91b9d70, ebp = 0 --- lockmgr: thread 0xc3205cc0 unlocking unheld lock KDB: stack backtrace: db_trace_self_wrapper(c0709990,d91b9bac,c0508e14,c07062e3,c3205cc0,...) at 0xc04519c6 = db_trace_self_wrapper+0x26 kdb_backtrace(c07062e3,c3205cc0,c3207000,c32071ec,0,...) at 0xc05444e9 kdb_backtrace+0x29 _lockmgr(c3f74498,6,c3f744c8,c3205cc0,c070d668,...) at 0xc0508e14 _lockmgr+0x614 vop_stdunlock(d91b9c00,c32407d4,c3f74440,c3205cc0,d91b9c24,...) at 0xc05890d5 = vop_stdunlock+0x45 VOP_UNLOCK_APV(c074d660,d91b9c00,c05a48b2,c074d660,d91b9c0c,...) at 0xc06e447c = VOP_UNLOCK_APV+0x5c vput(c3f74440,d91b9ce0,2,0,1388,...) at 0xc0598086 = vput+0xa6 vm_pageout(0,d91b9d38,0,0,0,...) at 0xc06965bd = vm_pageout+0xfdd fork_exit(c06955e0,0,d91b9d38) at 0xc04fc2a1 = fork_exit+0xa1 fork_trampoline() at 0xc06bbbe0 = fork_trampoline+0x8 --- trap 0, eip = 0, esp = 0xd91b9d70, ebp = 0 --- panic: vn_finished_write: neg cnt KDB: stack backtrace: db_trace_self_wrapper(c0709990,d91b9c04,c051bb2a,c0707c08,c07733e0,...) at 0xc04519c6 = db_trace_self_wrapper+0x26 kdb_backtrace(c0707c08,c07733e0,c070e5f4,d91b9c10,d91b9c10,...) at 0xc05444e9 = kdb_backtrace+0x29 panic(c070e5f4,c3f74440,d91b9ce0,c1868000,937,...) at 0xc051bb2a panic+0xaa vn_finished_write(c32407d4,d91b9ce0,2,0,1388,...) at 0xc05a4827 vn_finished_write+0x67 vm_pageout(0,d91b9d38,0,0,0,...) at 0xc0696616 = vm_pageout+0x1036 fork_exit(c06955e0,0,d91b9d38) at 0xc04fc2a1 = fork_exit+0xa1 fork_trampoline() at 0xc06bbbe0 = fork_trampoline+0x8 --- trap 0, eip = 0, esp = 0xd91b9d70, ebp = 0 --- Uptime: 5h33m33s Physical memory: 631 MB Dumping 240 MB: 225 209 193 177 161 145 129 113 97 81 65 49 33 17 1 (kgdb) bt #0 doadump () at pcpu.h:195 #1 0xc051b933 in boot (howto=260) at /system/src/sys/kern/kern_shutdown.c:418 #2 0xc051bb6a in panic (fmt=Variable "fmt" is not available. ) at /system/src/sys/kern/kern_shutdown.c:572 #3 0xc05a4827 in vn_finished_write (mp=0xc32407d4) at /system/src/sys/kern/vfs_vnops.c:1049 #4 0xc0696616 in vm_pageout () at /system/src/sys/vm/vm_pageout.c:1028 #5 0xc04fc2a1 in fork_exit (callout=0xc06955e0 <vm_pageout>, arg=0x0, frame=0xd91b9d38) at /system/src/sys/kern/kern_fork.c:783 #6 0xc06bbbe0 in fork_trampoline () at /system/src/sys/i386/i386/exception.s:205 (kgdb) fr 3 #3 0xc05a4827 in vn_finished_write (mp=0xc32407d4) at /system/src/sys/kern/vfs_vnops.c:1049 1049 panic("vn_finished_write: neg cnt"); (kgdb) list 1044 if (mp == NULL) 1045 return; 1046 MNT_ILOCK(mp); 1047 mp->mnt_writeopcount--; 1048 if (mp->mnt_writeopcount < 0) 1049 panic("vn_finished_write: neg cnt"); 1050 if ((mp->mnt_kern_flag & MNTK_SUSPEND) != 0 && 1051 mp->mnt_writeopcount <= 0) 1052 wakeup(&mp->mnt_writeopcount); 1053 MNT_IUNLOCK(mp); (kgdb) p mp->mnt_writeopcount $1 = -1 -- Andriy Gapon